The benefits to CNN are pretty obvious—namely, higher ratings, which translate into higher ad revenue. It’s not like the network only boosted its coverage of Trump as it has become more and more obvious that he would become the leading candidate. According to a number of media analysts, the Republican candidate received orders of magnitude more coverage from the very beginning of his campaign—before it was even clear how dominant his support was.

From June 16 (the day he announced his campaign) through September 14, media-tracking firm Zignal Labs said Trump was the subject of at least 2,159 CNN reports, almost twice as many as Florida governor Jeb Bush. Furthermore, the Media Research Center found that during a two-week period in August, close to 80% of CNN’s Republican campaign coverage was spent discussing Donald Trump: 580 minutes out of a total of 747 minutes.

Interestingly, Acosta also tweeted this in spite of his already earnestly expressed concern about the dangerous rally:

Ugh. Embarrassing child’s play, and painfully easy to see through:

Also piling onto Acosta’s elitist sense of self, while also conveniently ignoring Big Media’s dirty hands, Politico’s Marc Caputo whipped up his own special brand of derogatory hostility and divisiveness:

Ironically, Caputo seemingly still can’t understand why the media is so hated… Initially, Caputo came out swinging with sarcasm at his critics, but later issued an apology for his comments. But his ugly message remains: These garbage people, these Trumpsupporters, these hicks, these toothless clowns should stop fanatically clinging to their guns and Bibles and follow our example in how to treat fellow Americans!

It is undeniable that both sides of the political aisle are filled with deplorable individuals imbued with a perceived sense of righteous anger as they stoke the coals of dissension, and then claim the mantle of true patriot. Whether it’s members of the media, who conveniently forget their own complicity in giving Trump a helping hand for the sake of Big Ratings and subsequently downplayed the abuses leveled at his supporters, or whether it’s the Trump sycophants and loyalists, whose own bitterness and sense of betrayal have found a home in the incendiary provocations of Trump, they are all loathsome individuals. Neither group adds to the fiber of political discourse, nor do they persuade anyone to their cause. Oddly, Trump, like no other, brings to the surface all the arrogant dishonesty and self-deception that lies beneath the surface in many an individual. It’s raw, it’s angry, it’s manipulative and condescending. And from where I stand, it’s a foul piece of work, indeed.

P.S. I know a few good and decent people who uneasily support Trump. While I don’t share their views, I would absolutely exclude them from this assessment because I know that they too would turn away from anyone like those rally attendees captured on video, as much as they would people like Acosta and Caputo.

Trump has my full support and I don’t give a tinker’s damn what blithering fools like Jim Acosta or Marc Caputo have to say.

Acosta is a rude, two-faced crybully, who likes to push women around, and Caputo is a bitter snob looser who looks down his nose at the garbage people who won’t knuckle under to his presumptuous expectations.

Neither one is worth a bucket of spit, and both are a pox on the public’s airwaves.

Anytime people want to talk to me about journalists who are threatened by lawless despots or who risk their lives reporting from hellish war zones, I just think to myself that it is stalwarts like Acosta and Caputo who are doing the amazingly brave work of being yelled at and given the finger by Trump supporters, in an era where media cutbacks have meant that they now have to stay at Marriotts and Hiltons rather than the W or the Four Seasons and they are limited to $150 per diem for food and oftentimes only get upgraded to business class instead of first class. Heroes they are, the lot of them.

1st amendment protects media from rights infringed by government. It does not protect media vermin like jim acosta from the wrath of the people. The people have the right to let cnn know they suck. Media cry babies want government to protect them. Woodward and bernstein never attended a press conference or rally while working on watergate. White house pressers and rallys to put their spin dryed mugs on television is not investigating and reporting the news. Old news mans homily. “what they don’t want you to know is news. what they want you to know is propaganda!”

2. ‘The people,’ in case you forget, must pay to access CNN on basic cable cable or purchase of a TeeVee, a smartphone, etc. And they have many choices. If they can’t handle the CNN program, change the channel. You don’t threaten or harass someone for doing their job. Doubt you’d like it.

Never trumpers are leaving republican party as populists take over. 90% now support trump. Some are joining free trade democrat donors still trying to buy the black and latino vote from sanders supporting democratic base. clinton only won new york and california by keeping independents from voting for bernie in primaries. Donor class including msnbc who donated to crowley couldn’t stop alexandra ocasio-cortez from beating him. She is obama in waiting for 2024!

Seared in my memory is Acosta’s and Caputo’s coverage of that tragedy in Alexandria, VA, when a Trump supporter shot one leading Democratic Senator at the R v D baseball game and only regretted that he had not gotten more of them.

Under the category of fake news, this hoax scientific paper was actually published, and here’s the guy who wrote it. It would’ve been fun seeing someone conduct a thorough peer review to see if the results could be replicated.

Not all so-called ‘media’ operates in a determined way hostile to the interests of the American people, but the overwhelming preponderance of TV news and opinion shows plus the major newspapers are guilty as charged.

To say the national media IS the enemy of the people is to speak an obvious truth to a corrupt power elite who have closed their eyes and ears in service to a cabal of treacherous political criminals desperate to evade prosecution and well deserved incarceration.

While loosely on the subject of media, Omarosa is coming out with a book pretty soon, and it’ll once again put forward the assertion that Trump’s mental capacities have diminished, but this is coming from a person of diminished credibility. What we do know is that he’s already told as many untruths in 2018 as he did for all of 2017, indicating less tetheredness to facts and reality.

I found the comment you left in the spam folder. In reading it, it’s safe to say that it landed there because of using the F-word. If you could edit those to F-word or F***, it will get past the filter and make it here to the comments section.

#49–I hear that the ban on plastic straws was based on a school paper some kid in Vermont wrote, and his research consisted of calling companies who manufactured plastic straws and asking them how many they made each year–that’s what passes for science and hard news in this day and age.

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